After saying these words, the conference room was even quieter than before. After a long time, acting coach Sun Tianlong, who was participating in this kind of meeting for the first time, broke the silence. He said, "Coach He, are you sure Wang Chao thinks so?"
He Jingping glanced at him and smiled, "I'm sure."
Sun Tianlong nodded, smiled suddenly, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and felt a little relieved.
In today's meeting, he actually had a very stressful meeting, especially when the coaching staff just discussed the Lin Li and Hook games, his emotions were very complicated.
Because he knew very well that that game once again lowered Cai Guodong's evaluation of Lin Li, and also put Lin Li into an even more unfavorable situation in the Olympic Men's Singles competition with Wang Chao.
But originally Lin Li should not have been in this predicament.
Because Wang Chao was originally neither qualified to participate in the Swedish Open in April nor the German Open Men's Singles project in July.
Without these two open tournaments, Wang Chao would have no chance to prove how strong he is, let alone zero-block Lin Li.
These two opportunities were given by Sun Tianlong to Wang Chao on his own initiative. The latter opportunity was even obtained by him forcibly from Cai Guodong for Wang Chao based on his own reputation.
In a sense, he is indeed an enemy. After all, he is now Lin Li's direct coach.
Sun Tianlong has a clear conscience, because he truly believes that Wang Chao is more talented and has a better future. After Super League's shocking battle in March, he already acquiesced that Wang Chao will become the new generation of Great Demon King in the future.
But for Lin Li, his own junior brother, he felt guilty.
He thought about it and couldn't think of a way to make up for it.
Before He Jingping made the suggestion, he had thought of this method: give Lin Li another chance to prove himself and let him fight Wang Chao again. At least, it would give him a chance to meet Wang Chao.
But he didn't dare to mention it, because he was just upright and upright, but he didn't know the rules at all. He could break the sectarian opinions himself, but he couldn't force others to break the sectarian differences - yes, he was talking about you, Zhu Zeshi...
Seeing He Jingping stand up and take the initiative to propose, Sun Tianlong was finally sure that his good intentions had not been let down.
This pair of master and disciple from the Zhu family is worthy of his close friendship.
He also strengthened his belief at this moment and no longer hesitated.
"In this case, I don't have to worry about so many unnecessary worries anymore."
"I have helped Wang Chao so much, now it's time for me to help my junior brothers."
"Wang Chao, if Brazil Open you fail the exam this time, don't blame me."
The next day, Cai Guodong disclosed the unanimous decision of the coaching staff.
"Brazil Open will be held in one week. Except for Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong, Huaping will send all its main players to compete. Please practice hard and prepare well. This gold medal must be won."
In fact, the last sentence is a diversion, because the coaches know very well that in today's tense situation, once the main force of Huaping is used up, the open championship of a mere ordinary station is bound to be won.
So what everyone really wants to see this time is not whether the gold medal will fall by the wayside, nor what will happen to Swedish players Morad and k. Michel, but what kind of results Wang Chao will get in this test.
Obviously, he cannot lose to Bai Feng and Lin Li, otherwise the internal competition will become ambiguous again.
Of course, he can't lose to non-Chinese associations, because when considering the qualifications for the three competitions, his ability in foreign war is far greater than his ability in civil war.
Considering that Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong will not participate.
In fact, without knowing it, Wang Chao was forced to a dead end again, leaving only one way to pass the exam: win the championship.
"Are you nervous?"
"Not nervous."
"Are you confident?"
"Have confidence."
"Confident to win or confident to lose?"
"Um, coach... if I say I lose, will you punish me?"
This conversation took place between Tang Yuanyuan and Ge Miao.
It is now mid-August, and the Chinese Table Tennis Team has arrived in Brazil in a mighty manner and is intensively warming up and preparing for the next competition.
Brazil has a tropical and subtropical climate, and its weather conditions are completely different from those in China. In August, China is the season of fire, but here it is winter.
Of course, tropical winter is actually between 10 to 20 degrees Celsius. According to everyone in Huaping, it is no different from the late spring and early summer, and it is very comfortable.
Player the Beautiful Country also arrived in Brazil on the same day. As cross-paired mixed doubles partners, Lilith and Kazik immediately joined Wang Chao and Tang Yuanyuan.
But at this time, Kazik was obviously desperate for Tang Yuanyuan and had no hope for this competition. Although he still maintained his basic demeanor on the surface, he did not invite Tang Yuanyuan to practice together as enthusiastically as he did in Houston last month. Instead, he simply made an appointment to meet before the game and then left.
He lay flat.
As for Lilith, her mind was not on the competition at all. As soon as she met Wang Chao, she started to ask about her welfare, asking whether it was cold or hot, whether she was used to eating, whether she wanted to go out to play, and so on.
All I can say is that as a mother fan, she is very qualified.
After the last incident, Tang Yuanyuan gave up his hostility towards Lilith and chatted with her. Hearing her talk about various attractions and delicacies in Brazil, his eyes lit up and he asked if he could go out with her. Then he was scolded by Ge Miao who was following behind.
"What are you playing for? There are still games to play."
"If you can't win the game, you can't go anywhere."
What follows is the conversation at the beginning of this chapter.
Tang Yuanyuan is very depressed because she really has no tasks during her trip to Brazil. She is really bored.
She can't sign up for singles, and she can't play doubles with Wang Chao. It's no fun to accompany this Kazik. She plans to lose the first game on purpose, and then she can become a qualified Chinese tourist.
But there is no one to accompany him, because Wang Chao still has Men's Singles to fight.
So after thinking about it, if I don't want to be bored in the next few days, I will probably have to follow Wang Chao as a follower.
After all, watching other people's games is not interesting at all. It is better to watch Wang Chao's games.
That evening, the Men's Singles group drawing ceremony was held as usual.
For Wang Chao, this time he finally no longer has to match others.
He successfully reached the ninth place in the world rankings and became the seed himself.
In fact, Huaping's big move this time was completely unexpected by non-Chinese associations, because Brazil Open is really not important. There are 4 Platinum leg in the first 5 stations, followed by three World Table Tennis Championships in the competition, except for Portugal Open who is as unimportant as him in September, the next Peacock Country Open in October is Platinum leg.
It can be said that all the competitions before and after it have higher prize money and higher points than it. This stop is not attractive at all. It happened to be just after World Cup, the players of the major table tennis associations were very tired, resulting in most of the world's top table tennis players choosing to miss this stop.
For example, Hook is busy transferring and will report to China in August.
For example, Mizutori Hato is also busy transferring and has filled the hole left by Hook in advance.
For example, Bayer has just returned from North America and does not want to fly South America again.
For example, Lin Zijun, after completing the super evolution, is practicing new mixed doubles tactics with Zhen Jing in seclusion.
For example, k. Michel claimed to have some insights after playing World Cup, and then went to retreat to Old Wa.
For example, Pike... well, Pike is here this time.
In fact, among the top 20 non-Chinese associations players in the world, only Pike and Zhang Benkuang chose to participate because one of them has been absent for too long and the other has poor results. If they don't earn more points, they will fall off the list.
Even Germany's Qiu Shang and Nigeria's Arul, who have not yet entered the list, have chosen to take a vacation. This is Brazil Open's card. It cannot be said to be very small, it can only be said to be none at all.
So International Table Tennis Federation and the Brazilian Table Tennis Association were very puzzled and couldn't figure out what Huaping was here for. If this was a fantasy novel, you could explain that there was a rare treasure about to be born in Brazil. But the problem is that this was a sports novel, so International Table Tennis Federation officials were confused.
Could it be that the gold medal of Brazil Open is not gold-plated, but pure gold?
After the chairman was puzzled, he actually called the Brazilian Table Tennis Association to ask about the above issue. As a result, the president of the Brazilian Table Tennis Association started to make rich associations. He suspected that the people below were using this method to launder money or smuggle gold. After a thorough investigation and secret investigation, they finally found that nothing happened.
In short, when the eight divisions were divided according to world rankings, fans all over the world felt very calm.
Why?
Because the seeds in 5 of the 8 groups are the main players of Huaping, even Fan Xiaodong got a seed seat.
The remaining three people are Pike, Morad, and Zhang Benkuang.
Besides, who else is participating?
Fans from all over the world glanced at it and said, oh, good, most of them don't recognize them and don't know what they are. Hey, no, those few seem to be our country's crooked jujubes? Forget it, it doesn't matter, because obviously, even if they enter the main game, they are destined to be cannon fodder.
Therefore, if nothing else happens, these eight seeds will basically be the final eight. As for those who will be added to the group later, no matter how famous or powerful they are, they will probably be just cannon fodder in the end.
You see, we foreign fans have been desperate for the players we support from the beginning, and are ready to watch the Chinese table tennis civil war. It doesn't matter who wins, it has nothing to do with us anyway, so won't we feel calm?
But the lottery ceremony is still going on, and there are always some players and fans who have dreams. So as the lineup is filled up bit by bit, the audience still screams of exclamation one after another.
Ten minutes later, the list of the top sixteen players in the main competition was confirmed. Wang Chao was quite surprised to find that his luck this time was actually very good, because he was in the top half, and was relatively difficult to crack in his mind. Bai Feng, Lin Li and Fan Xiaodong are all in the lower half. In addition, there is an x-factor in the lower half that has just left the game and whose strength is not yet clear: Pike.
Of course, because there are too many seed players in Huaping, it is impossible to completely avoid it. The tough nut Wang Chao encountered here is Xiao Fei.
Another half hour later, it was the mixed doubles draw.
There are very few mixed doubles registration teams for this Open. There are only 15 pairs in total, not even the top 16. But the amazing thing is that except for the pair Lin Zijun and Zhen Jing who have been practicing hard in seclusion, several of the stronger combinations in the world table tennis world are actually here.
Two pairs of Sakura Country, Zhang Benkuang and Hayata Hannah, Ichikawa Mima and Niuwa Xiaoxi.
A pair from Minato, Weng Chunting and Ai Qin.
Two pairs of Daehan Minguk, Kim Bong and Kim Jong, Xian Youwen and Che Songxin.
There are also two pairs of substitutes from China Table Tennis Team who have never participated in international competitions, Lu Feiyang and Shen Sha, Gao Mingyuan and Wang Yu.
Finally, there are two multinational combinations, Wang Chao and Lilith, Tang Yuanyuan and Kazik.
Obviously, this must be the news that Tang Dynasty Combination was forcibly demolished. As a result, these powerful combinations of non-Chinese associations all saw the opportunity. They did not mind that Brazil Open was small in size and had little prize money, and they were all focused on grabbing a gold medal while the tiger was taking a nap.
The lottery was soon completed, and Tang Yuanyuan sighed beside Wang Chao.
"What's wrong?" Wang Chao asked.
Tang Yuanyuan shook his head. "It's very difficult... Kazik and I's opponents tomorrow are actually the new team of Luxembourg. Oh my god, does anyone on Luxembourg know anything about mixed doubles? In order to lose quickly, I may have to play very hard."
She glanced at Wang Chao again, feeling envious. "You are so lucky."
Wang Chao could only smile bitterly. He didn't know whether this was good luck or not, because he and Lilith met his old acquaintances and old enemies. They were also what he currently considered to be the strongest combination in the international arena besides Huaping: Xian Youwen and Che Songxin.
I was still hesitating whether to win a game or lose directly, but now I don't have to hesitate at all. I should work harder tomorrow and try not to get my head shaved.